"One wonders why God would choose a Bible to reveal himself thousands of years before the invention of the printing press and at a time when few people could read." - C. W. Dalton , "The Right Brain and Religion"

"People, upon finding the "truth," spend the remainder of their lives defending it. Christianity protects itself against the doubting of its theology by making doubting one of its greatest sins. By contrast, doubting is the greatest virtue of science. " - C. W. Dalton , "The Right Brain and Religion"

"While God routinely punishes the innocent, he perversely rewards the guilty. According to one Christian scheme of salvation the worst sinners, no matter how much raping, robbing, swindling, murdering and mutilating they have done in their rotten lifetime, can get into Heaven by merely acknowledging God's son Jesus as their Savior; they can enjoy eternal bliss right along with good people who have earned it." - C. W. Dalton

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. - Richard Dawkins [ more quotes ] ©2010 HNPS. All rights reserved.